I know what you're saying, but didn't the place and show horses run speed figures that fit perfectly well with what they had done previously? In terms of BSFs, they are both mid-90s horses who ran in the mid-90s on Saturday.
Every single horse in the race needed to run a career high Beyer to beat Mine That Bird Saturday except for Dunkirk.
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The Main Course...the chosen or frozen entree?!